318 LOWER OOLITIC ROCKS OF ENGLAND : 
The beds seen in the cutting near Ashford Bridge on the Great 
Western railway (Worcester branch), are as follows : 
FT. IN. 
Bubble of oolite, marl, &c. 
Fissile and false-bedded oolites and 
marls - - - - ^ 15 
-2 
15 
O 
Upper Division 
Lower Division 
Oolitic limestone, with Corals 
Marly and carbonaceous oolite 
Clay and sandy shales, with Ostrea 
Sowerbyi 
Pale-grey limestone with Nerincea 
Eudesi, Astarte angulata, &c. 1 
Fissile and shelly oolite, with Nerinosa 
at top - . - 6 to 8 
The section has been described by John Phillips and others* ; 
and more recently by Mr. E. F. Tomesf who obtained from the 
Coral Bed, Astroccenia Phillipsi, Cryptoccenia Pratti, Isastrcea 
gibbosa, I. limitata, Montlivaltia, Thamnastrcea Lyelli y &c. 
He also obtained Cyathophora Bourgueti from the bed above 
the .ZVmn^a-limestone. A number of Gnsteropods and other 
fossils have also been obtained, by Mr. T. J. Slatter, from the 
Great Oolite in this cutting : they include Fibula rariata, F. 
eulimoidcs, Natica Michelini, J\'eridomus minutus, Ataphrus dis- 
coideus, Delphinula alta, and Solarium varicosum. Many other 
fossils, together with Cypricardia nuculiformis, and C. rostrata 
have been recorded by Mr. Whiteaves, who placed the fossili- 
ferous beds in the Lower Division of the Great Oolite. (See 
p. 250.) The stratigraphical evidence does not enable me to 
correlate the beds definitely with those of Milton. The bed with 
Astarte angulata may be the top of the Lower Division ; but the 
species is found elsewhere at higher horizons, and I am inclined 
to include the bed in the Upper Division. The lowest bed of 
oolite may perhaps represent the Tayntou freestone, for as 
remarked by Mr. Tomes, all the beds " overlie the Stonesfield 
Slate, which is under the line of railway." On the Geological 
Survey Maps the beds are shown to be faulted on the west, against 
the Inferior Oolite and Lias. 
The Upper Division of the Great Oolite has been exposed in 
railway-cuttings eastwards towards Handborough station ; and 
again in a quarry by Whitehill Wood, north of North Leigh. In 
the quarry, the uppermost beds were not accessible, but I saw the 
following sequence : 
FT. IN. 
Forest Marble? - 
("Greenish and white rubbly marl. 
Pale earthy limestone. 
Grey marly clay - - 4 
Hard pale earthy limestone 1 3 
* Phillips, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi. p. 116; A. Gaudry, Bull. Soc. 
Geol. France, ser. 2. tome x. p. 594. (I am indebted to Mr. Walford for calling 
my attention to M. Gaudry's paper) ; J. F. Whiteaves, Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1860, 
p. 105. 
t Tomes, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxxix. p. 171 ; T. Beesley, Banburyshire 
Nat. Hist. Soc., Excursion to Stonesfield, 1882. 
